From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAF356B004D for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:47:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:47:35 +0100 (CET) From: Tobias Oetiker Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, candidate fix V3 In-Reply-To: <1258054235-3208-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <1258054235-3208-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , Frans Pop , Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-mm@kvack.org\\\"" , KOSAKI Motohiro , Pekka Enberg , Rik van Riel , Christoph Lameter , Stephan von Krawczynski , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Kernel Testers List List-ID: Hi Mel, Yesterday Mel Gorman wrote: > Sorry for the long delay in posting another version. Testing is extremely > time-consuming and I wasn't getting to work on this as much as I'd have liked. > > Changelog since V2 > o Dropped the kswapd-quickly-notice-high-order patch. In more detailed > testing, it made latencies even worse as kswapd slept more on high-order > congestion causing order-0 direct reclaims. > o Added changes to how congestion_wait() works > o Added a number of new patches altering the behaviour of reclaim so is there anything promissing for the order 5 allocation problems in this set? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch tobi@oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org